Family psychology

Featuring rich case examples, this book has helped tens of thousands of students and therapists build the skills and confidence needed to tackle the full range of issues that families bring to therapy.

This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice.

This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice.

Applying family systems concepts to the intrapsychic realm, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model proposes that individuals' subpersonalities interact and change in many of the same ways as do families and other human groups.

This acclaimed work--now in an extensively revised second edition--provides an up-to-date conceptual framework and hands-on strategies for culturally competent clinical practice with Latino families and individuals.

A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work.

A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work.

Helping beginning and experienced therapists cope with the myriad challenges of working in agencies, clinics, hospitals, and private practice, this book distills the leading theories and best practices in the field.

Helping beginning and experienced therapists cope with the myriad challenges of working in agencies, clinics, hospitals, and private practice, this book distills the leading theories and best practices in the field.

Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young childrens emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first comprehensive presentation of the Circle of Security (COS) intervention.

Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young childrens emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first comprehensive presentation of the Circle of Security (COS) intervention.

Rich with clinical wisdom, this successful text and practitioner guide offers a comprehensive framework for treating adolescent problems in the family context.

This book has been replaced by Adolescents at Risk: Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention, ISBN 978-1-4625-3653-5.

Widely adopted, this valued course text and practitioner guide has expanded the understanding of family normality and healthy functioning in our increasingly diverse society.

Solution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be no more than the techniques it is famous forpragmatic, future-oriented questions that encourage clients to reconceptualize their problems and build on their strengths.

Since around the 1970s, the world has witnessed a technological revolution equaling no less than a global paradigm shift in the way we communicate in our social relationships.

This is a comprehensive clinical resource for addiction counselors who want to learn about the psychological components of the problem, for individual therapists-dynamic, cognitive, and behavioral-who want to understand systems approaches in order to draw on a broader repertoire of useful interventions, and for couple and family therapists who want to learn more about the intrapsychic, biological, and pharmacological aspects of addiction.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Play therapy and family therapy both are well established therapeutic paradigms.

Many single woman-married man relationships are characterized by such recognizable, even stereotypic, interactions and run such a predictable course as to constitute a genuine syndrome.

Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems.

This pioneering volume reviews theory and research on parental gatekeeping-the extent to which parents support or thwart each other's involvement in parenting.

'A brilliant book' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A book that can show you how to change your behaviour' Evening StandardA child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later.

John Gray has become a publishing phenomenon.

Reader's comments:`Then along comes your book - lands on my desk like a gift, which I have barely put down since.

"e;If you need one book that's crammed with clinically excellent, genuinely well informed and useful ideas for working with family relationships in all their permutations, this is undoubtedly it"e; - Professor Colin Feltham, Sheffield Hallam University "e;This is easy to read and has a clear layout.

"e;This book's strengths are [Brenda Mallon's] clinical wisdom, experience and insights, and the practical, constructive, down-to-earth way in which she conveys these to her readers.

`A thought provoking and interesting book that will be of interest to nurses and others supporting patients' - Accident and Emergency Nursing`It is a relevant and timely book that will remind therapists of the importance of the telling of client's stories as an important component of the therapeutic process.

Drawing on many years' experience in practice, teaching and research, Mark Rivett and Eddy Street present philosophical, sociological and empirical views of family therapy.

`I liked this book.

`Anybody with the slightest interest in brief therapy should read this book.

`The authors have done their homework in reading and consulting with the prominent literature, especially regarding children.

Reader's comments:`Then along comes your book - lands on my desk like a gift, which I have barely put down since.

"e;If you need one book that's crammed with clinically excellent, genuinely well informed and useful ideas for working with family relationships in all their permutations, this is undoubtedly it"e; - Professor Colin Feltham, Sheffield Hallam University "e;This is easy to read and has a clear layout.

The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.

Every parent's goal is to raise happy, healthy children who can thrive and flourish whatever the challenges faced along the way.

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of COUPLES AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS Perhaps as never before, models of couples and families are changing dramatically in the 21st century.

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of COUPLES AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS Perhaps as never before, models of couples and families are changing dramatically in the 21st century.

The Handbook of Family Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical underpinnings and established practices relating to family psychology.

The ability to deal with difficult people is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.

Unlocking Business is a new kind of textbook for business students in their first and second year of a degree.

Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's?

The American Latino: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Culture and Mental Health Issues focuses on the culture of the Hispanic population in the United States and replaces stereotypes with portrayals based on factual information.

In this text, Butler takes an in-depth look at the development of family systems theory and how the work of Bowen, Gelso, and Meissner has shaped family psychotherapy.

Systemic family therapy owes a debt of gratitude to Rudi Dallos and Ros Draper who have delivered a fifth edition of the book that has provided essential scaffolding for systemic family therapists for over two decades.

How to Counsel a Couple in 6 Sessions or Less makes it easier to counsel couples over a brief period of time, but also addresses major marital issues of communication, family issues, decision making, and more.

Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, "e;conditioning"e; each of us in ways that endure throughout our lives and affect all of our relationships.